Clottey creates tapestries using plastic cut from jugs used to carry water in his home country. The jugs are also known as Kufuor gallons, after John Agyekum Kufuor, the president of Ghana from 2001 to 2009, who used these containers to distribute water. Imported from the west as cooking oil canisters, they have come to symbolize water shortages in Accra. Clottey describes the jugs as “very symbolic in our Ghanaian lifestyle for everyday survival.”
Serge Attukwei Clottey, Earning potentials
2019
Clottey crea tapices con plástico cortado de jarras utilizadas para transportar agua en su país de origen. Las jarras también se conocen como galones Kufuor, en honor a John Agyekum Kufuor, presidente de Ghana de 2001 a 2009, quien utilizó estos contenedores para distribuir agua. Estos jarros, importados de occidente como botes de aceite de cocina, han llegado a simbolizar la escasez de agua en Acra. Clottey describe las jarras como "muy simbólicas en nuestro estilo de vida ghanés para la supervivencia cotidiana".
Serge Attukwei Clottey, Ghanaian, born 1985
Earning potentials, 2019
plastic, wire and oil paint
Gift of Stefan Simchowitz
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